IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18326 accession number: HEN.M.50-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 19 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pot helmet for use by a pikeman. Formed in two halves joined medially by a turn along a moderately high comb, and by a riveted overlap at the front and rear ends of a broad, downturned integral brim. The brim has a plain inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing thirty-three round-headed lining-rivets with circular internal washers. The base of the crown is encircled by twenty-two round-headed lining-rivets. The crown is decorated around its base and to either side of its comb with pairs of incised lines. The helmet lacks its cheek-pieces. title: pot helmet NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18326 TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in two halves joined medially by a turn along a moderately high comb, and by a riveted overlap at the front and rear ends of a broad, downturned integral brim; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with a recessed border and incised lines hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1630 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1630 culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 44.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.7 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.46 dimension: Width units: cm value: 28.4